Editor: It appears that Thomas Sowell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution of the prestigious Stanford University and a syndicated columnist frequently featured in the Record, is against gun regulation (of any kind?).

He dismisses those in favor of such regulation as either innocent or dogmatic ignoramuses (Record 12/20/2012, “Invincible ignorance”) and attempts to show this by correlating the degree of stringency of gun control with murder rates in different countries. This is not only rather rude of him but his arguments don’t hold up, so who is ignorant?